What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.